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Montevideo, September 21st 2024 - 09:16 UTC

Tag: YPF

  • Friday, August 23rd 2024 - 09:28 UTC

    Fire at Argentine oil refinery contained in time

    First aid responders were summoned from the PNA and the municipalities of Ensenada and Berisso

    A tank at the Ingeniero Enrique Mosconi Refinery Industrial Complex in the city of Ensenada -south of Buenos Aires and east of La Plata- belonging to Argentina's State-run oil company YPF caught fire Thursday at around 4.30 pm. The high smoke clouds polluted a vast part of the densely populated area but no victims were mentioned in the preliminary report.

  • Wednesday, July 31st 2024 - 22:38 UTC

    YPF and Petronas announce joint LNG partnership in Argentine Patagonia

    The Rio Negro location offered numerous advantages over Bahía Blanca, it was explained

    Argentina's state-run oil company YPF and its Malaysian version Petronas will invest over US$ 30 billion to build a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) plant in the Patagonian province of Río Negro, it was announced, thus ending speculations according to which such a facility was to be or should have been settled in the Bahía Blanca area in the province of Buenos Aires.

  • Saturday, October 28th 2023 - 08:55 UTC

    Argentina to import fuel to ease current shortages

    In the next few days the problem will be solved, said Royón

    Argentine authorities said Friday that more fuel will be imported to guarantee supplies to the pumps as the ongoing crisis is set to drag on for weeks, potentially affecting the Nov. 19 presidential runoff between Economy Minister Sergio Massa and Liberal Congressman Javier Milei, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

  • Friday, October 27th 2023 - 10:16 UTC

    Fuel shortages reported in Argentina

    YPF implemented on Monday an average increase of 3%

    Due to fuel shortages in several parts of Argentina, some pumps were forced to sell only up to a quota per customer while others simply closed their activities on Thursday, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

  • Monday, September 25th 2023 - 09:55 UTC

    Uruguay's Ancap awards all offshore exploration licenses open for bids

    Ancap authorities also pointed out that US$ 127 million had been pledged by the bidders

    Uruguay's state-run oil company Ancap has awarded all seven offshore oil and gas exploration licenses open for bids to four foreign companies: YPF (Argentina), APA Corp (United States), and Shell and Challenger Energy Group (CEG) (United Kingdom), it was reported in Montevideo.

  • Tuesday, April 25th 2023 - 12:43 UTC

    Argentina to export oil to Chile again

    Iuliano said that if something has to be fixed, “there would be a change in the schedule.”

    Beginning in June, Argentina will resume exporting oil to Chile after 17 years, the website Rio Negro reported.

  • Friday, December 30th 2022 - 09:36 UTC

    YPF to build lithium batteries in Catamarca

    “We must move from salt to batteries, and from there to the change of the electric system,” Jalil said

    Argentina's state-run Y-TEC YPF plans to install a lithium battery manufacturing plant in the province of Catamarca, according to a deal signed this week between Governor Raúl Jalil and YPF's President Pablo González, it was announced. Also signing the document was Y-TEC (YPF's technological institute) Chief Roberto Salvarezza.

  • Thursday, November 3rd 2022 - 10:55 UTC

    CFK gradually moving back onto center stage

    The Vice-President was reported not to miss a single detail

    Argentine Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) Wednesday met with YPF CEO Pablo González and Chevron executives Clay Neff and Bruce Niemeyer at her Congress office.

  • Monday, August 29th 2022 - 19:32 UTC

    YPF announces mega port on Rio Negro's Atlantic shores

    The structure will hopefully be operational starting in 2025

    Argentina's state-run oil company YPF announced a mega port will be built in Río Negro to export oil from the Atlantic shore.

  • Wednesday, June 22nd 2022 - 20:11 UTC

    Unconventional production boosts oil and gas output in Argentina

    “We have an activity in permanent growth, thanks to the strong impulse we gave to Vaca Muerta,” Martínez said

    Argentina's oil output reached its zenith in 20 years with 584,000 barrels per day (bpd) delivered in May of 2022, thanks mostly to unconventional developments, it was reported Tuesday.

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